I have a deduplicated volume in Windows Server 2016 that some software is having problems dealing with.
Specifically, Matlab 2015 and older couldn't read deduplicated files, and while updating to a current version allowed for the files to be read, much recoding was required to restore functionality. Recoding is incomplete, and it will be more cost-effective to undo the deduplication.
The dedupcliation savings is greater than the amount of free space by a number of free space by nearly 7 TB, and the only method of undoing deduplication is to use the Unoptimization job type of Start-DedupJob. But it would run against the entire volume, so I would just like to de-deduplicate the current active set of working data and leave the remaining to rest in place until more capacity is added.
Besides using a method to make the data "new", like copying it to an off-volume location and then back again, is there a a way to de-deduplate a certain folder rather than an entire volume?
